Heading for the hubbub of the Edinburgh festival season? This handsome city’s
many and varied art galleries offer respite from the street jugglers, the
flyer-pushers and the “confessional” comedy — and this is a great time to
visit them, as they lay out their choicest wares to coincide with the summer
flood of culture-lovers.

This year is particularly significant; in honour of Glasgow hosting the
Commonwealth Games, 60 venues across the country (including spots as remote
as Thurso, Stornoway and North Uist) are taking part in an ambitious
project, GENERATION, a celebration of the past 25 years of contemporary art
in